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D. Listen to the podcast again and answer the
questions.
1. What is the purpose of the Build It Up podcast?
2. Where had Rafi been on holiday?
3. What wasn’t he able to see?
4. What are the features of brutalist architecture?
5. What is the building supposed to represent?
6. Who was the building named after?

7. How long had Rafi spent in San Diego?
8. What does he suggest his parents might have
done while he went to the campus?

E. Complete these sentences with your own ideas.
1. Had Rafi stayed longer in San Diego, .
2. Had Rafi been able to visit the library, .
3. Had I overslept this morning, . Rafi says, Had I known the campus
was so far out of the city, I would’ve got
4. Had I not come to school today, .
my parents to stay another night. With
5. Had I forgotten to do my homework, .
the third conditional, we can invert
6. Had the weather been different yesterday, . had and the subject, and omit if.
7. Had I been born fifty years ago, .
8. Had I been born a (boy/girl), .

F. Choose one of the following architectural styles
from the list. Work with a partner to prepare
a presentation for your classmates. Here are
some questions to help you:
1. In what period was this style of architecture typical?
2. Is it limited to a particular country or region?

3. What are the main features of the style?
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4. Find three structures built in this style. Where is each
located, and what is its use?

5. What do you particularly like or dislike about this style?

• Art Deco
• Gothic
• Heliopolis
• Jengki
• Ottonian
• Rococo
• Storybook

• Sustainable

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